शायद इवेंजेलिकल कट्टरपंथी जिस परिवार की बात कर रहे हैं, वह 1950 के दशक का नहीं बल्कि बाइबल के ज़माने का परिवार है। पुरानी बाइबल साफ कहती है कि तब परिवार पूरी तरह पितृसत्तात्मक हुआ करते थे। पुरुषों को एक से ज़्यादा पत्नियां और रखैलें रखने की छूट थी। उन रखैलों से बिना शादी के भी बच्चे पैदा होते थे, जिन्हें समाज मान्यता देता था... तो क्या यही इवेंजेलिकल लोगों के आदर्श परिवार की परिभाषा है?
Perhaps what is really being proposed by the Evangelical fundamentalists is a return not to the 1950s family but to the family of biblical days. The Old Testament is clear that this was a strong patriarchal family. Men were permitted several wives and concubines. Children were legitimately conceived by these concubines outside of marriage. . . . Is this the Evangelical's idea of an ideal family?
Perhaps what is really being proposed by the Evangelical fundamentalists is a return not to the 1950s family but to the family of biblical days. The Old Testament is clear that this was a strong patriarchal family. Men were permitted several wives and concubines. Children were legitimately conceived by these concubines outside of marriage. . . . Is this the Evangelical's idea of an ideal family?